Objectives: Stroke is one of the most common neurological disease and it is the main cause of physical and mental disability and staying in house. Gait difficulties have high incidence in patients with stroke. So the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of gait retraining on balance, activities of daily living, quality of life and depressionin stroke patients. Methods: This study ...

BACKGROUND The relationship between frailty and gait characteristics other than velocity has received little attention. Gait variability quantifies the automaticity of gait with greater variability usually indicating an irregular and unstable gait. High gait variability reflects the loss of gait regulation and predicts mobility decline and falls, which may reveal systemic vulnerability. Thus, w...

This paper aims for analyzing gait to investigate feature values related to gait transformation using 3D(Dimensional) human data in order to conceal a personal identification. Biometric data including fingerprint, iris, vein, and gait etc., are distinctive characteristics that certificate individuals. Gait is useful even if it is taken from faraway place. A Kinect is used to obtain gait data. 3...

BACKGROUND It is difficult to identify the range of gait deviations associated with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) using simple clinical observations. AIMS To use objective gait analysis to accurately describe biomechanical gait abnormalities in JIA and to search for common patterns, which may subsequently serve as a basis for therapeutic intervention. METHODS Children with persistent ...

BACKGROUND Gait characteristics measured at usual pace may allow profiling in patients with cognitive problems. The influence of age, gender, leg length, modified speed or dual tasking is unclear. METHODS Cross-sectional analysis was performed on a data registry containing demographic, physical and spatial-temporal gait parameters recorded in five walking conditions with a GAITRite® electroni...

This paper proposes a method of adaptively generating a gait pattern of biped robot. The gait synthesis is based on human’s gait pattern analysis. The proposed method can easily be applied to generate the natural and stable gait pattern of any biped robot. To analyze the human’s gait pattern, sequential images of the human’s gait on the sagittal plane are acquired from which the gait control va...

Walking is a complex motor task generally performed automatically by healthy adults. Yet, by the elderly, walking is often no longer performed automatically. Older adults require more attention for motor control while walking than younger adults. Falls, often with serious consequences, can be the result. Gait impairments are one of the biggest risk factors for falls. Several studies have identi...

gait rehabilitation using body weight support on a treadmill is a recommended rehabilitation technique for neurological injuries, such as spinal cord injury. in this paper, a new robotic orthosis is presented for treadmill training. in the presented design the criteria such as low inertia of robot components, backdrivability, high safety and degrees of freedom based on human walking are conside...

This paper presents the one-dimensional gait kinematic principle, in order to identify the kinematic parameters for normal and pathological (transtibial amputation) gait of two subjects with similar anthropometry. Each type of gait is associated with uniform linear motion and uniformly accelerated motion. We used the Manuela Beltrán University Biomechanics Laboratory. The developed physical mod...

This article describes a new multivariate measure of overall gait pathology called the Gait Deviation Index (GDI). The first step in developing the GDI was to use kinematic data from a large number of walking strides to derive a set of mutually independent joint rotation patterns that efficiently describe gait. These patterns are called gait features. Linear combinations of the first 15 gait fe...